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PRAYER  AND  HEALING 


HIS    PRESENCE 
EFFECTUAL    PRAYER 
UNBELIEF    AND    FAITH 
NEITHER  LAPSE  NOR    RELAPSE 
THE  CHURCH  OF  CHRIST 
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PRAYER  AND    HEALING 


HIS  PRESENCE. 

IN  "Science  and  Health  with  Key  to  the  Scrip- 
tures/' by  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  p.  512,  we  read 
that  "Spirit  is  symbolized  by  strength,  presence, 
and  power."  When  Moses  was  called  to  lead 
the  children  of  Israel  out  of  Egypt  he  asked  whom1 
God  would  send  with  him.  The  answer  which 
he  received  was,  "My  presence  shall  go  with  thee, 
and  I  will  give  thee  rest."  The  psalmist  sang, 
"Thou  wilt  show  me  the  path  of  life:  in  thy 
presence  is  fulness  of  joy." 

Christian  Science  is  teaching  us  the  nature 
and  character  of  God's  presence  and  bringing  that 
fulness  of  joy  which  comes  from  a  realizing  sense 
of  His  nearness.  ,  It  teaches  us  that  God's  pres- 
ence is  always  with  us;  that  wherever  we  are, 
whatever  our  burdens  may  seem  to  be,  God's  love 
sustains  us.  Love  alone  is  the  nature  of  the 
presence  which  never  leaves  us  nor  forsakes  us. 
Because  the  spiritual  presence  of  God  is  ever  with 
us,  here  and  now,  there  is  nothing  material  or 

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mortal  with  power  to  make  or  to  mar  our  happi- 
ness. Until  we  learn  this  we  shall  be  in  cruel 
bondage,  like  the  Israelites  of  old,  ever  struggling 
against  weakness,  pain,  or  fear,  looking  either 
backward  with  regret,  or  forward  with  forebod- 
ings. From  the  inspired  writings  of  Mrs.  Eddy 
Christian  Scientists  are  learning  how  to  apply 
in  daily  life  Jesus'  command,  "Take  no  thought 
for  the  morrow."  We  are  learning  that  only 
the  present  is  ours  and  that  our  duty  is  to  rightly 
improve  each  present  moment,  to  keep  ourselves 
busy  striving  to  realize  God's  presence  now.  Do- 
ing this,  our  recollections  of  the  past  are  filled 
with  gratitude  and  our  anticipations  of  the  future 
with  the  loving  trust  which  knows  no  sense  of 
anxiety. 

If  we  are  God's  children — His  image  and  like- 
ness— today,  then  in  reality  we  have  always  been 
the  object  of  His  tender  love,  from  which  nothing 
can  separate  us,  even  though  this  likeness  doth  not 
yet  appear.  That  which  we  really  reflect  can 
never  be  taken  from  us ;  otherwise  we  should  lose 
our  identity  as  God's  children.  This  abiding  con- 
sciousness of  God's  loving  presence  lifts  the  bur- 
den imposed  by  envy,  jealousy  and  kindred  traits 
resulting  from  a  belief  of  partiality — a  belief  that 
God  has  given  to  some  of  His  children  gifts  and 
blessings  which  He  has  withheld  from  others. 

As  we  assimilate  the  teachings  of  Christian 
Science  we  find  that  our  sense  of  a  limited  supply 


HIS    PRESENCE  5 

in  any  direction  is  the  result  of  a  lack  of  under- 
standing. It  results  from  ignorance  of  the  fact 
that  supply  is  really  spiritual,  even  when  mani- 
fested materially  to  the  human  senses,  as  was  the 
case  when  Jesus  fed  the  multitude  with  the  few 
loaves  and  fishes,  thus  proving  God's  presence 
then  and  there. 

Through  a  careful  study  of  the  Psalms  in  the 
light  thrown  upon  the  Scriptures  by  our  text-book, 
we  see  what  it  meant  to  the  sweet  singer  of  Israel 
to  dwell  in  the  sacred  presence  of  the  most  High. 
He  knew  that  God  can  furnish  a  table  in  the 
wilderness,  and  every  Christian  Scientist  is  learn- 
ing, perhaps  slowly,  but  always  surely,  that  divine 
Love  through  its  ever-presence  is  meeting  "every 
human  need"  (Science  and  Health,  p.  494). 


EFFECTUAL   PRAYER. 


'""T^HE  effectual  fervent  prayer  of  a  righteous 
•A  man,"  wrote  St.  James,  "availeth  much;" 
and  James  was  a  follower  of  him  who  said,  "If 
ye  have  faith  as  a  grain  of  mustard  seed,  ye 
shall  say  unto  this  mountain,  Remove  hence  to 
yonder  place;  and  it  shall  remove;  and  nothing 
shall  be  impossible  unto  you."  It  is  to  be  noted 
that  this  apostle  saw  not  only  the  power  of  true 
prayer,  but  that  he  discerned  as  well  the  reasons 
for  unanswered  prayer :  "Ye  lust,  and  have  not," 
he  declares.  "Ye  kill,  and  desire  to  have,  and 
cannot  obtain :  ye  fight  and  war,  yet  ye  have  not, 
because  ye  ask  not.  Ye  ask,  and  receive  not, 
because  ye  ask  amiss,  that  ye  may  consume  it 
upon  your  lusts."  This  is  an  arraignment  which 
brings  the  mortal  face  to  face  with  himself  upon 
this  whole  question;  a  charge  which  exposes  self- 
interest,  dishonesty,  greed;  an  analysis  which 
lays  bare  the  whole  human  deflection  from  God- 
likeness.  The  inspiration  of  righteous  com- 
munion and  the  vanity-  of  perverted  petition  were 
alike  evident  to  this  clear-eyed  disciple;  and  they 

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EFFECTUAL    PRAYER  7 

can  be  equally  plain  to  the  men  and  women  who 
attain  today  a  like  measure  of  spiritual  under- 
standing. 

"Ye  worship  ye  know  not  what,"  said  Jesus 
to  the  woman  of  Samaria;  "we  know  what  we 
worship."  And  then  he  defined  God  as  Spirit, 
an'd  declared,  "They  that  worship  him  must  wor- 
ship him  in  spirit  and  in  truth."  The  worldly- 
minded  have  long  prayed  to  they  "know  not 
what."  The  revelation,  however,  of  all  that  is 
true  about  God,  unfolded  by  Christ  Jesus  and 
again  set  forth  in  Mrs.  Eddy's  teaching  of 
Christian  Science,  shows  the  Christian  Scientist 
more  of  what  he  worships  and  helps  him  to 
pray  with  growing  sincerity  and  grace.  Christian 
Science  elevates  prayer,  and  will  continue  to 
uplift  and  enlarge  it  until  it  becomes  that  fervent 
and  effectual  thought-process  of  "a  righteous 
man"  which  does  avail.  Christian  Science  holds 
for  the  world  a  crystal-clear  perception  of  prayer, 
and  makes  possible  such  prayer  by  revealing 
spiritual  man,  the  likeness  and  image  of  God,  as 
thinking  no  thoughts  of  his  own  but  as  always 
reflecting  the  divine  Mind.  To  reflect  divine 
Mind  is  perfect  prayer. 

Concerning  this  question  of  prayer,  Mrs.  Eddy 
has  written  on  page  20  of  her  book  "No  and 
Yes" :  "Ever-Present  Love  must  seem  ever  absent 
to  ever-present  selfishness  or  material  sense. 
Hence  this  asking  amiss  and  receiving  not,  and 


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the  common  idolatry  of  man-worship."  And 
again,  in  the  same  book  (p.  39),  "Prayer  can 
neither  change  God,  nor  bring  His  designs  into 
mortal  modes;  but  it  can  and  does  change  our 
modes  and  our  false  sense  of  Life,  Love,  and 
Truth,  uplifting  us  to  Him." 

Prayer,  then,  is  not  for  God,  but  for  us. 
Prayer  is  not  to  persuade  nor  to  placate  God, 
but  to  make  room  for  more  of  God  manifest 
in  us.  Prayer  benefits  essentially  him  who 
prays,  for  if  it  be  true  prayer  it  transforms 
his  consciousness,  purifies  his  desire,  enlarges 
his  outlook,  increases  his  expectation  of  good. 
Prayer,  like  Jacob's  ladder,  is  the  celestial  stair- 
way upon  which  the  angels  of  thought  ascend 
and  descend;  lifting  honest  hope  to  God;  bring- 
ing heaven's  will  to  earth.  Prayer  raises  thought 
to  the  higher  uses  of  good ;  to  oneness  with  God 
and  with  all  that  is  Godlike.  Prayer  explores 
the  kingdom  of  heaven;  it  goes  about  the  right- 
eous business  of  acquainting  thought  with  God.  It 
stirs  the  moth  and  rust  of  earth ;  bares  our  human 
mildew  to  heavenly  sunshine ;  renews  life.  Under 
the  influences  of  true  prayer  goodness  thrives; 
evil  passes,  and  the  law  of  God  prevails. 

What  mortal  is  ready  to  admit  that  the 
presence  of  God  is  absent  to  him,  as  Mrs.  Eddy 
has  declared,  because  of  ever-present  selfishness? 
And  who  is  honest  enough  to  see,  as  James  points 
out,  that  his  requests,  if  granted,  would 


EFFECTUAL   PRAYER  9 

strengthen  him  in  his  own  wilful  way?  He  who 
is,  is  ready  to  utter  his  first  availing  prayer;  he 
is  no  longer  thankful  with  the  Pharisee  that  he 
is  not  as  other  men,  but  rather  sees  with  the 
publican  his  own  distance  from  Godlikeness. 
Thought  must  distinguish  between  spiritual  man 
in  God's  likeness  and  the  rnortal  which  counter- 
feits spiritual  man;  must  see  the  error  of  the 
latter,  and  rise  from  it  into  the  reality  of  being, 
if  the  right  basis  for  prayer  is  to  appear.  The 
perception  of  man's  spiritual  perfection  and  the 
uncovering  of  the  material  imperfection  which 
hides  God's  man,  go  hand  in  hand  in  Christian 
Science.  Solomon  approached  God  when  he  knew 
himself  to  be  "a  little  child,"  in  need  of  guidance ; 
Peter  saw,  at  the  first  touch  of  the  Christ,  his 
own  sinfulness ;  even  the  sinless  Master  declared, 
"None  is  good,  save  one,  that  is,  God." 

When  one  sees  the  unworthiness  of  all  that  is 
mortal,  he  enters  upon  a  humility  which  is  the 
first  requisite  of  effectual  prayer.  Intellectual 
perception,  logical  reasoning,  even  unflagging 
devotion  to  good  purpose,  without  "a  contrite 
spirit"  avail  little.  The  true  Christian  feels  safest 
when  possessed  by  humbleness  of  spirit.  To  be 
able  to  say  honestly  and  spontaneously,  "I  was 
wrong,"  or  "I  am  sorry,"  and  then  to  do  better, 
means  spiritual  protection,  for  it  puts  to  flight 
whole  troops  of  damaging  thoughts, — thoughts 
self-righteous,  self-opinionated,  and  self -inflating. 


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It  should  be  noted,  however,  that  this  spirit  of 
true  humility  differs  from  self-depreciation  or 
self-condemnation.  The  latter  traits  are  the 
human  recoil  from  disappointed  self-confidence 
and  self-love.  Actual  humility  is  the  desire  to 
know  God  because  even  the  best  of  self  fails  to 
satisfy,  and  it  exalts  God  and  knows  His  presence 
to  the  exact  degree  that  the  whole  human  point 
of  view  is  surrendered. 

Humility,  then,  comes  first  in  preparation  for 
true  prayer.  It  is  that  quality  which  confesses, 
"I  need  thee  every  hour/'  Not  until  the  prodigal 
of  Jesus'  parable  saw  his  food  to  be  husks,  saw 
his  own  distance  from  his  father's  house,  saw 
how  unsatisfying,  in  fact,  was  everything  outside 
his  father's  house,  did  he  cast  it  all  from  him 
and  go  to  his  father.  In  like  manner,  it  is  only 
when  the  spiritual  analysis  of  Christian  Science 
strikes  a  proud  spirit  contrite  that  the  heart  can 
say  truly  and  wholly,  "I  will  arise."  The  Chris- 
tian Scientist  maintains  that  Christian  Science 
brings  about  a  thought-adjustment  which  com- 
pels humility,  and  that  its  teaching,  obeyed,  leads 
logically  to  availing  prayer. 

Not  that  Christians  in  all  ages  have  not  prayed, 
and  frequently  with  "signs  following."  But  no 
philosophy  or  religion  save  that  wrought  out  by 
Christ  Jesus  and  elucidated  today  by  Mrs.  Eddy's 
teaching  has  ever  revealed  the  spiritual  man's 
inseparability  from  God;  has  ever  set  forth  the 


EFFECTUAL   PRAYER  11 

entire  unreality  of  evil;  has  ever  even  attempted 
to  annul  sickness  and  death  in  conjunction  with 
the  destruction  of  sin;  has  ever  claimed  that 
answer  to  prayer  comes  logically,  by  reason  of 
spiritual  law,  as  such  law  is  understood  and 
obeyed.  So,  the  student  of  Christian  Science 
knows  he  has  found  that  which  puts  mortal  self- 
hood where  it  belongs,  and  that  which  exalts 
God's  power  and  presence  as  absolute.  He  prays, 
consequently,  if  he  prays  rightly,  with  no  sense 
of  human  righteousness,  and  his  confidence  that 
right  prayer  and  its  answer  are  inseparable  fol- 
lows increasingly  his  larger  sense  of  God  and  of 
man's  relation  to  God.  With  this  much  under- 
stood, he  must  acknowledge  honestly  that  nothing 
less  than  Christian  Science  could  give  him  this 
infinite  basis  for  praying  aright  and  for  gladly 
expecting  the  answer  he  earns. 

With  meekness  and  with  confidence  of  answer, 
then,  the  student  of  Christian  Science  prays;  and 
from  this  righteous  beginning  he  may  steadily 
improve  the  nature  of  his  prayer.  Much  has 
been  said  about  the  insufficiency  of  petition;  the 
value  of  affirmation.  Christian  Science  says  that 
we  may  pray  in  any  way  that  makes  God  nearer, 
dearer,  more  available  to  us;  the  desire  to  ap- 
proach Him  needs  only  to  be  based  upon  the 
admission  of  His  ever-presence  and  ever-benefi- 
cence.  If  prayer  begins  with  petition,  it  must, 
to  be  availing,  end  with  affirmation.  "For  thine 


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is  the  kingdom,  and  the  power,  and  the  glory," 
prayed  Jesus,  after  he  had  told  his  disciples  to 
ask  for  daily  bread,  for  forgiveness,  and  for 
deliverance  from  evil. 

A  cry  for  help  may  be  the  first  reaching  out 
for  God.  If  thought  is  at-one  with  God,  it  is 
serene  and  knows  the  safety  of  all  created  things. 
But  if  human  will  and  desire  are  wandering,  an 
appeal  for  help  is  often  the  mental  pivot  upon 
which  thought  swings  back  to  God,  and  so  has 
its  uses  to  the  straying  mortal.  To  beg  God  for 
help  and  still  remain  in  doubt,  is,  however,  to 
let  doubt  and  fear  govern  the  situation  and  work 
out  their  evil  purposes.  Christian  Science  alters 
the  character  of  prayer  by  leading  it  beyond  this 
point  of  insecurity  to  a  living  certainty  of  the 
goodness  of  God.  It  enlarges  the  prayer  which 
asks  for  help  until  it  is  a  prayer  which  finds 
joy  in  knowing  how  God  helps.  And  it  adds  to 
the  Christian's  prayer  just  what  the  Christian 
desires  to  have, — the  unshaken  expectation  that 
the  will  of  God  shall  prevail. 

The  prayers  of  scholasticism  have  for  their 
basis  a  belief  that  God  knows  both  good  and  evil, 
and  that  He  frequently  withholds  good,  or  for  in- 
scrutable purposes  sends  evil;  therefore  those 
who  so  pray  waver  and  suffer  disappointment. 
The  prayer  of  Christian  Science  stands  squarely 
upon  the  understanding  of  God  as  creating  and 
knowing  and  sending  only  good ;  hence  the  Chris- 


EFFECTUAL   PRAYER  13 

tian  Scientist  knows  God's  plan  for  him  to  be 
all  good,  and  his  prayer  is  steadfast  in  trust  and 
rejoicing.  He  enters  into  prayer  in  order  to  rid 
his  own  thinking  of  fear  and  doubt  and  con- 
fusion; to  find  what  is  really  God's  purpose  for 
him.  And  he  does  this  by  knowing  that  God, 
divine  Mind,  is  the  only  original  thinker;  that 
man  in  His  likeness  is  mentally  reflecting  God, 
and  so  is  thinking  God's  thoughts  by  reflection; 
and  that  all  unlike  divine  Mind,  or  supposedly 
outside  it,  is  not  Mind  at  all,  but  a  passing 
erroneous  belief  to  be  neither  honored  nor  feared. 
He  puts  away  so-called  material  thinking  and 
cherishes  spiritual  thinking,  until  the  one  departs 
from  him  and  the  other  possesses  him.  Then 
appears  that  wonder  called  answered  prayer.  Sin 
lessens,  temptation  departs;  sickness  is  healed; 
dominion  over  evil  enters  into  human  affairs. 
This  is  the  prayer  of  affirmation;  this  the  basis 
for  Christian  Science  treatment. 

The  Scriptures  as  interpreted  by  the  Christian 
Science  text-book,  "Science  and  Health  with  Key 
to  the  Scriptures,"  by  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  reveal 
the  truth  about  God  and  His  creation;  the  ma- 
terial senses  testify  untruthfully  about  the  creator 
and  about  all  created  things.  Prayer  read- 
justs thought,  that  Truth  may  appear  and  all 
untruth  disappear;  hence  its  necessity  and  value. 
True  prayer  is  the  declaration  of  spiritual  law 
coupled  with  living  trust  in  the  availability  of  this 


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law  to  meet  all  human  need.  It  is  the  meditation 
of  the  heart  which  lays  hold  of  spiritual  law  and 
enlists  its  activity  to  undo  specific  evils.  It  is 
the  transitional,  transforming  state  wherein 
thought  reverently  and  piously  yearns  for  good. 
It  is  the  open  mental  doorway  through  which 
Christlikeness  enters  to  handle  the  serpent  of  sin. 
Prayer  that  is  right  makes  over  the  mind  of  him 
who  prays;  it  is  evil  giving  up  its  boast;  its 
logical  result  is  increased  selflessness.  And 
thought  thus  purified  cannot  fail  to  receive  answer 
to  prayer  with  its  prayer.  It  is  ignorance  and 
sin  and  doubt  and  fear  which  separate  prayer 
from  its  answer.  Really,  the  possibility  of  prayer 
presupposes  the  existence  of  its  answer ;  if  prayer 
dwells  with  men,  answer  must  exist  in  God.  And 
so,  when  thought  becomes  one  with  God,  it  be- 
comes one  with  answered  prayer. 

Concerning  what  is  generally  called  the  prayer 
of  affirmation,  the  human  heart  must  be  care- 
fully watched.  It  is  true  that  the  understanding 
of  the  all-power  and  ever-presence  of  God, 
affirmed  and  realized  as  Christian  Science  reveals 
it,  heals  the  sick,  annuls  sin,  and  otherwise  de- 
stroys evil.  But  to  affirm  God's  care  and  protec- 
tion for  any  specific  personal  purpose  is  to  be  in 
danger  of  praying  amiss.  The  righteous  prayer 
does  not  concern  itself  with  human  wishes;  does 
not  ask  God  to  enter  upon  the  scene  of 
human  affairs  and  rearrange  them  to  suit  the 


EFFECTUAL    PRAYER  15 

petitioner.  To  affirm  the  success  of  human  plans 
and  policies,  even  though  they  seem  at  the  time 
to  be  altogether  good,  is  to  pervert  in  most  un- 
holy fashion  the  offices  of  true  prayer. 

The  human  will,  until  unselfed  by  divine  Love, 
is  by  nature  a  lawbreaker,  and  its  prayer,  whether 
of  petition  or  affirmation,  is  for  self,  and  in  con- 
sequence untrue  and  deservedly  unavailing.  The 
genuine  Christian  Scientist,  therefore,  does  with 
his  own  desires  as  Abraham  did  with  Isaac,  and 
nothing  short  of  such  complete  surrender  can 
make  his  prayer  prove  true.  He  must  renounce 
all  that  constitutes  a  material  sense  of  existence, 
and  lay  down  his  personal  outlining  of  plans,  if 
he  is  wholly  to  trust  his  welfare  to  the  law  of 
God.  He  must,  in  short,  mean  "thy  will  be 
done"  when  he  prays  it.  Let  him  who  prays  cast 
out  of  himself  the  will  to  shape  the  answer  to 
his  prayer,  and  he  prays  truly. 

He  who  prays,  then,  should  gladly  lay  aside 
his  human  will  and  seek  safety  in  acquaintance 
with  the  divine  Mind  and  with  all  that  this  Mind 
holds  for  him,  else  his  prayer  is  a  mockery.  If 
he  desires  only  comfort  in  the  flesh,  and  has  no 
longing  to  be  more  Godlike,  he  should  not,  to  be 
consistent,  be  praying  at  all;  nor  should  he  be 
expecting  help  from  God.  The  only  genuine 
prayer  asks  for  redemption  from  matter,  not  for 
peace  in  it;  for  deliverance  from  the  things  in 
ourselves  that  make  us  sick,  not  just  for  relief 


16  PRAYER   AND    HEALING 

from  sickness.  Such  prayer  is  righteous,  for  it 
defeats  everything  that  would  obstruct  spiritual 
progress.  It  is  effectual  because  it  casts  out  of 
thought  the  causes  for  trouble  and  there  is  con- 
sequently less  trouble. 

"The  effectual  fervent  prayer,"  said  St.  James; 
and  the  fervency  of  prayer  is  determined  by  our 
interest  in  the  things  of  the  Spirit.  That  which 
concerns  us  most  we  are  most  fervent  about.  He 
who  prays  in  lukewarm  fashion  will  very  likely 
find,  upon  analysis,  that  he  loves  God  least,  world- 
liness  most.  When  prayer  is  a  living  and  refresh- 
ing mental  oneness  with  God  and  Godlikeness, 
and  thought  is  happier  in  this  than  in  any  human 
point  of  view,  prayer  is  fervent.  When,  with 
this,  thought  is  sufficiently  enlightened  to  under- 
stand somewhat  the  ever-presence  of  God  and  the 
nothingness  of  evil,  prayer  becomes  irresistible; 
no  evil  can  withstand  it.  Christ  Jesus  said, 
"Therefore  I  say  unto  you,  What  things  soever 
ye  desire  when  ye  pray,  believe  that  ye  receive 
them,  and  ye  shall  have  them."  And  Mrs.  Eddy, 
whose  life  is  a  prayer  that  has  uplifted  her  gener- 
ation, defines  clearly  the  conditions  which  make 
possible  answered  prayer,  when  she  writes 
(Science  and  Health,  p.  495),  "God  will  heal  the 
sick  through  man,  whenever  man  is  governed  by 
God." 


UNBELIEF  AND  FAITH. 


THE  unbelief  which  stands  in  the  way  of 
spiritual  progress  is  not  so  much  disbelief 
of  the  truth  which  has  been  presented,  as  it  is 
the  occupation  of  the  mind  with  beliefs  which 
are  contrary  to  the  truth.  Since  the  mind  is 
thus  preoccupied,  it  has  no  hospitality  for  the 
truth.  "Why  do  ye  not  understand  my  speech  ?" 
asked  Jesus;  and  in  reply  he  went  on  to  say, 
"even  because  ye  cannot  hear  my  word."  He  was 
speaking  to  those  who  claimed  to  be  the  children 
of  Abraham  without  discerning  the  spirit  which 
had  animated  Abraham ;  they  were  proud  of  their 
lineal  descent,  but  unable  to  discern  the  qualities 
of  mind  which  exalted  their  great  ancestor.  Their 
formality  and  pride  prevented  them  from  accept- 
ing the  teaching  which  was  in  accord  with  the 
vision  and  faith  of  Abraham.  Later,  Jesus  made 
the  sweeping  statement,  "Every  one  that  is  of 
the  truth  heareth  my  voice."  The  converse  of 
this  would  be  that  they  who  were  of  error  did 
not  hear,  because  they  were  listening  for  some- 
thing else  than  the  voice  of  Truth.  "They  are 

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i8  PRAYER   AND   HEALING 

of  the  world :  therefore  speak  they  of  the  world, 
and  the  world  heareth  them/'  is  the  explanation 
given  by  John,  regarding  those  who  affiliate  with 
the  "spirit  of  error."  • 

Unbelief,  then,  is  that  condition  of  mind  which 
is  so  receptive  of  erroneous  views  that  the  word 
of  Truth  seems  to  be  a  strange  language,  and 
there  is  no  hospitality  for  its  messenger.  Dis- 
belief may  express  itself  in  argument  and  con- 
troversy, and  finally  be  changed  to  a  new  con- 
viction as  it  yields  to  facts;  but  unbelief  is  of 
the  nature  of  apathy  and  deafness,  and  it  is 
necessary  that  there  should  first  be  an  arousing, 
an  awakening,  then  a  clearing  of  thought,  where- 
by the  beliefs  in  error  sheltered  in  the  house  of 
unbelief  are  dispersed.  In  speaking  of  the  kind 
of  grieving  which  effects  repentance,  Paul  said, 
"For  behold  this  self-same  thing,  that  ye  sor- 
rowed after  a  godly  sort,  what  carefulness  it 
wrought  in  you,  yea,  what  clearing  of  your- 
selves." 

The  abolishment  of  unbelief  is  accomplished 
by  such  a  clearing  of  thought  that  wrong  beliefs 
are  seen  to  be  without  basis,  and  as  they  are 
dispersed  there  comes  a  vision  of  that  which  has 
basis  and  enduring  cause.  The  false  sense  of 
man  as  a  composite  of  sensations,  errors,  sick- 
nesses, sins,  and  unsatisfied  desires,  yields  to  a 
vision  of  the  truth  of  being.  As  discernment  of 
that  on  which  being  depends,  the  creative  power 


UNBELIEF   AND   FAITH  19 

which  we  name  God,  becomes  clearer,  eventually 
it  can  be  said  that  by  faith  we  understand  what 
man  is;  we  are  able  to  see  the  causal  connection 
between  the  Father  and  the  son  who  is  the  ex- 
pression of  the  Father's  being  and  character. 

When  we  consider  this  matter  practically  we 
recognize  that  every  argument  we  use  to  favor 
the  prepossession  that  evil  is  power,  whether  we 
give  to  the  argument  the  name  of  any  one  of 
the  thousand  diseases  which  men  believe  to  be 
hurtful,  or  the  name  of  any  one  of  the  innumer- 
able sins  which  men  believe  to  be  delightful,  is 
really  a  statement  of  unbelief  in  God.  Any  belief 
in  sickness  is  really  an  expression  of  unbelief  in 
omnipotent  goodness;  if  there  were  faith,  there 
would  be  healing.  Every  sin  is  an  expression  of 
unbelief  in  omnipotent  goodness;  if  there  were 
faith,  there  would  be  righteousness.  If  men  fear 
evil  so  as  to  be  sick,  and  love  evil  so  that  they 
are  sinful,  what  is  this  but  unbelief  in  the  real 
power  which  manifests  itself  in  healing  and  hap- 
piness among  men?  How  shall  we  help  this  un- 
belief, or  rather  help  men  out  of  it  and  bring 
them  into  the  salvation  which  comes  by  faith  ? 

The  expression  of  unbelief  may  be  in  a  variety 
of  beliefs.  In  this  usage  of  the  word  a  "belief" 
is  a  conviction  as  to  the  reality  of  something  not 
caused  by  God,  and  a  consequent  experience  of 
conditions  which  correspond  to  the  conviction. 
James  Whitcomb  Riley  tells  a  pathetic  story  of 


20  PRAYER   AND   HEALING 

a  man  who  came  to  believe  that  he  could  not 
speak,  and  met  the  love  and  persuasion  of  his 
family  with  apparent  stubbornness  in  the  con- 
viction that  it  was  of  no  avail  to  try  to  use  his 
voice.  At  last  the  tenderness  of  his  daughter  so 
touched  his  own  love,  that  he  broke  through  the 
barrier  of  his  fear  and  false  belief  with  answer- 
ing speech  to  hers. 

In  the  case  of  the  epileptic  boy  brought  by 
his  father  to  Jesus  after  he  came  down  from 
the  mount  of  transfiguration,  the  measure  of  the 
father's  conviction  as  to  his  son's  affliction  was 
the  measure  of  his  unbelief  in  any  healing  power. 
His  doubts  were  confirmed  by  the  failure  of  the 
disciples  to  help  him,  but  his  strong  belief  in 
the  reality  and  incurable  nature  of  the  disease  had 
practically  brought  the  disciples  to  his  way  of 
thinking;  hence  they  were  for  the  time  in  a 
state  of  unbelief.  To  meet  the  need  of  them 
all,  and  of  the  world,  Jesus  analyzed  the  error, 
and  sharply  rebuked  the  father  of  the  boy  when 
his  recital  of  the  symptoms  and  manifestation  of 
the  disease  ended  with  the  doubt, — "If  thou  canst 
do  anything,  have  compassion  on  us,  and  help 
us."  Jesus  replied  to  him  in  words  that  awakened 
a  new  sense  of  the  case,  "If  thou  canst  believe, 
all  things  are  possible  to  him  that  believeth."  The 
man  was  trying  to  put  the  responsibility  upon  the 
healer;  now  he  was  shown  that  faith  leads  to 
the  power  which  heals,  and  his  heart  melted  with 


UNBELIEF   AND   FAITH  21 

new  love  and  hope.  How  graphic  is  the  record : 
"Straightway  the  father  of  the  child  cried  out, 
and  said  with  tears,  Lord,  I  believe;  help  thou 
mine  unbelief."  Then  followed  the  healing  of 
the  boy,  and  it  was  a  permanent  cure ;  "the  child 
was  cured  from  that  very  hour,"  as  one  of  the 
evangelists  affirms. 

The  disciples  were  still  puzzled  over  their 
failure,  and  not  discerning  their  Master's  method, 
asked  him  why  they  were  not  able  to  cast  out 
the  demon.  Jesus  showed  them  that  they  were 
in  the  same  case  as  the  father  of  the  boy,  who 
had  a  prepossession  as  to  the  reality  of  the  disease, 
and  had  affected  them  with  the  same  belief,  and 
thus  had  brought  them  into  a  state  of  unbelief. 
"Why  could  not  we  cast  him  out?"  asked  they. 
"Because  of  your  unbelief,"  replied  Jesus,  with 
the  indisputable  authority  of  the  completed 
demonstration.  Furthermore  he  said,  "If  ye  have 
faith  as  a  grain  of  mustard  seed,  ye  shall  say 
unto  this  mountain,  Remove  hence  to  yonder 
place;  and  it  shall  remove;  and  nothing  shall 
be  impossible  unto  you." 

Further  instruction  still  he  gave  them,  when 
he  said,  "Howbeit  this  kind  goeth  not  out  but  by 
prayer  and  fasting."  As  ceremonially  observed, 
fasting  was  merely  abstinence  from  food,  or  from 
certain  proscribed  kinds  of  food.  Of  course  it 
cannot  be  within  the  power  of  either  fasting 
or  feasting,  in  a  material  sense,  to  deliver  one 


22  PRAYER   AND   HEALING 

from  unbelief;  but  when  we  consider  how  with 
greediness  the  mortal  mind  assimilates  the  various 
beliefs  in  error  which  human  imagination  has 
originated,  one  can  see  that  &  fast  from  such 
indiscriminate  gorging  would  be  a  blessing.  Like 
the  "crop-full  bird,"  men  become  heavy  and 
sordid  with  their  beliefs,  and  their  eyes  become 
too  dull  to  have  any  vision  of  divine-'realities.  To 
fast,  in  the  sense  of  giving  up  such  sense-grati- 
fication, and  to  pray  aright,  which  is  to  commune 
with  God,  to  turn  one's  thought  to  the  contempla- 
tion of  that  real  cause  of  happiness  and  well-being 
for  man,  that  source  of  life  which  to  every  return- 
ing prodigal  is  Father,  cannot  mil  to  establish 
faith  in  good.  The  process  is  well  stated  by 
Isaiah :  "Let  the  wicked  forsake  his  way,  and  the 
unrighteous  man  his  thoughts :  and  let  him  return 
unto  the  Lord."  If  we  recall  the  word  spoken 
by  Jesus  in  connection  with  salvation,  "With  God 
all  things  are  possible,"  it  must  be  evident  that 
when  through  fasting  and  prayer  we  both  forsake 
the  false  belief,  and  also  realize  the  new  vision 
of  divine  goodness,  we  shall  be  equipped  for  the 
work  of  casting  out  demons,  as  the  disciples 
desired  to  be. 

Casting  out  false  beliefs,  we  assail  unbelief; 
but  the  mind  must  not  be  left  empty,  lest  they 
return  with  added  torment.  The  truth  of  being 
which  expelled  them  must  also  exclude  them. 
The  false  beliefs  which  are  the  expression  of  the 


UNBELIEF   AND   FAITH  23 

attitude  of  unbelief  are  eradicated  by  the  action 
of  the  spirit  of  Truth.  They  are  from  no 
heavenly  origin  of  good  seed;  where  they  seem 
to  grow,  it  is  from  such  sowing  as  the  perverted 
imagination  of  men  has  been  doing  for  ages. 
There  is  comfort  in  knowing  of  the  impermanence 
of  all  these  conditions.  Our  Master  declared, 
"Every  plant,  which  my  heavenly  Father  hath  not 
planted,  shall  be  rooted  up."  As  one  compre- 
hends this,  faith  becomes  his  attitude  to  God ;  and 
the  good  which  he  expects  from  God  is  done  unto 
him,  and  proved  to  others. 


NEITHER  LAPSE  NOR  RELAPSE. 


A  CURE  in  Christian  Science  is  based  upon  the 
scientific  fact  that  since  true  health  is 
spiritual  and  eternal,  there  has  never  been  a  lapse 
from  this  genuine  health,  never  any  cessation  of 
harmony  nor  any  interference  with  God's  govern- 
ment; so  that  man  is  amply  justified  in  looking 
upon  God  as  the  health  of  his  countenance.  From 
this  it  logically  follows  that  disease  and  discord 
have  never  been  created,  that  they  have  no  law 
to  support  them  and  that  they  have  never  come 
into  real  being  for  an  instant.  It  further  follows, 
that  since  there  has  never  been  any  lapse  from 
harmony,  so  there  can  be  no  relapse,  for  a  lapse 
necessarily  precedes  a  relapse.  Mrs.  Eddy  tells 
us  that  "Science  knows  no  lapse  from  nor  return 
to  harmony"  (Science  and  Health,  p.  471). 

"But,"  says  the  average  reader,  "what  about 
all  the  sick  people  one  sees,  do  you  ignore  them?" 
Christian  Scientists  are  very  far  from  ignoring 
suffering,  and  the  lives  of  practitioners  are  de- 
voted to  the  relief  of  the  sick.  Their  plea  that 
God  did  not  create  disease  nor  ordain  suffering, 

24 


NEITHER  LAPSE   NOR   RELAPSE  25 

has  the  authority  of  Truth,  and  consequently  the 
patient's  fears  and  symptoms  commence  to  abate 
as  he  takes  in  right  ideas  and  gains  quietness  of 
mind  and  reassurance.  When  spirituality,  tran- 
scending the  evidence  of  the  five  physical  senses, 
gives  us  a  glimpse  of  creation  as  it  really  is,  spirit- 
ual and  perfect,  we  are  faced  with  the  fact  that 
it  is  not  so  much  a  disease  that  has  to  be  healed 
as  a  false  belief  to  be  obliterated  and  a  dark  fear 
to  be  dispelled. 

Truth  and  Love  are  the  only  healing  agents 
the  world  can  ever  need  or  ever  have.  Some  may 
argue  that  suffering  is  experienced,  whether  the 
sufferer  is  made  sick  from  a  physical  or  a  mental 
cause.  True,  and  to  say  that  a  person  is  merely 
suffering  from  the  effects  of  fear  and  to  leave 
the  matter  there  would  not  go  far  toward  healing 
him ;  but  truth  drives  the  lie  from  its  hiding-place 
in  declaring  that  neither  fear  nor  false  belief  was 
ever  created  by  God  for  the  torment  of  His  crea- 
tion, and  that  if  He  is  in  no  way  discordant, 
neither  can  His  creation  or  reflection  be  so.  In 
the  words  of  our  Leader,  "Science  saith  to  fear, 
'  .  .  .  You  do  not  exist,  and  have  no  right  to 
exist,  for  "perfect  Love  casteth  out  fear" ' " 
(Retrospection  and  Introspection,  p.  61).  Thus, 
speaking  from  the  spiritual  standpoint,  which  is 
the  only  absolutely  true  one,  sickness  has  no  true 
cause,  whether  moral  or  physical.  That  disease 
will  continue  in  human  experience  so  long  as  sin 


26  PRAYER   AND   HEALING 

remains,  is  indicated  by  the  utterances  of  Jesus, 
but  sin  has  no  origin  in  God,  since  He  is  of 
too  pure  eyes  to  behold  evil ;  and  His  omniscience 
includes  no  consciousness  of  this  human  invention. 

Thus  Science  leads  us  again  and  again  to  the 
primal  fact  of  harmony,  which  fact  has  been 
hidden  by  a  maze  of  mistaken  beliefs  and  theories, 
though  all  the  while  creation  has  lain  intact  and 
unsullied  as  the  snow-capped  mountain  at  which 
mortals  gaze  from  distant  valleys.  Infinite  good, 
however,  is  not  distant  from  any  one,  nor  is 
Truth  remote;  and  mistaken  fears  have  only  the 
density  which  we  ourselves  accord  to  them.  It  is 
well  to  remember  always  that  evil  is  a  nonentity 
which  never  had  any  action  of  its  own,  nor  ever 
suspended  or  accelerated  the  action  of  the  one 
infinite  and  all-inclusive  divine  Mind.  Some  may 
suggest  that  even  although  the  falsity  of  one's 
view-point  has  been  recognized,  this  recognition 
carries  with  it  no  remedy  for  the  existing  state 
of  things.  It  should  not,  however,  be  forgotten, 
by  students  of  this  Science,  that  a  false  claim 
is  no  claim  at  all;  indeed,  Mrs.  Eddy  strongly 
emphasizes  the  fact  that  "to  say  there  is  a  false 
claim,  called  sickness,  is  to  admit  all  there  is  of 
sickness ;  for  it  is  nothing  but  a  false  claim.  To 
be  healed,  one  must  lose  sight  of  a  false  claim. 
...  As  it  is  with  sickness,  so  is  it  with  sin" 
(Unity  of  Good,  p.  54). 

The   honest   student   of   Christian    Science   is 


NEITHER  LAPSE   NOR   RELAPSE  27 

endeavoring  to  gain  dominion  over  the  belief  that 
there  is  any  evil  power,  or  any  power  in  evil, 
or  even  any  claim  to  such  power.  In  this  way 
Truth  drives  out  error  and  all  its  false  claims. 
Jesus  maintained  scientific  facts  so  faithfully  and 
dwelt  upon  them  so  constantly  that  he  performed 
miracles  such  as  the  world  had  not  witnessed 
before.  Christ  Jesus  has  given  to  humanity 
evidences  of  the  true,  sinless,  deathless,  spiritual 
creation,  free  from  all  that  is  material  and  perish- 
able; he  has  shown  us  glimpses  of  a  mountain- 
peak  lying  serene  above  the  clouds  of  mortal 
belief,  accessible  to  all,  and  each  glimpse  of  which 
should  heal  some  traveler  in  the  valley,  besides 
giving  joy  and  buoyancy  to  the  mental  footsteps 
of  the  explorer  in  this  spiritual  realm.  Our  gaze 
should  remain  fixed  upon  the  summit,  so  that 
the  eternal  light  may  stream  through  a  conscious- 
ness that  refuses  longer  to  harbor  darkness.  The 
reflection  of  light  alone  includes  no  shadows. 
When  the  one  creation  stretches  before  us,  more 
and  more  clearly  outlined  in  peace  and  harmony, 
our  health  and  happiness  will  cease  even  to 
appear  liable  to  lapse  or  relapse. 


THE  CHURCH  OF  CHRIST,  SCIENTIST. 


IT  is  very  desirable  that  all  who  join  the  Church 
of  Christ,  Scientist,  whether  it  be  The  Mother 
Church  or  one  of  its  branches,  should  be 
thoroughly  familiar  with  the  object  for  which 
this  church  was  founded,  as  set  forth  in  the 
"Historical  Sketch"  in  the  Manual ;  namely,  "To 
organize  a  church  designed  to  commemorate  the 
word  and  works  of  our  Master,  which  should 
reinstate  primitive  Christianity  and  its  lost 
element  of  healing"  (p.  17).  The  precise  purpose 
for  which  the  Christian  Science  Church  was 
formed,  and  which  is  here  so  definitely  stated, 
should  be  ever  uppermost  in  the  thought  of  the 
members  of  The  Mother  Church  and  of  the 
branch  churches.  The  nature  of  the  church,  as 
it  is  understood  in  Christian  Science,  is  further 
defined  by  Mrs.  Eddy  in  Science  and  Health,  (p. 
583),  as  "that  institution,  which  affords  proof 
of  its  utility  and  is  found  elevating  the  race,  rous- 
ing the  dormant  understanding  from  material 
beliefs  to  the  apprehension  of  spiritual  ideas  and 
the  demonstration  of  divine  Science,  thereby 

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THE   CHURCH    OF   CHRIST,    SCIENTIST       29 

casting  out  devils,  or  error,  and  healing  the 
sick." 

The  foregoing  brief  quotations  from  our 
Church  Manual  and  our  text-book  should  be 
enough  to  remind  us  that  we,  as  members  of 
the  Christian  Science  church,  are  identified  with 
the  most  important  religious  movement  since  the 
early  Christian  era,  and  are  engaged  in  the  most 
splendid  undertaking  in  which  it  can  possibly  be 
our  privilege  to  participate.  Having  once  fully 
realized  this  fact,  we  should  not  lack  inspiration 
for  faithful,  persistent,  consecrated  activity.  We 
should  be  able  to  see  that  in  the  work  of  Christian 
Science  there  can  be  no  idleness,  apathy,  self- 
ease,  self-complacency,  or  any  other  form  of 
selfishness  which  might  creep  in  and  delay  if  pos- 
sible the  coming  of  Christ's  kingdom  to  individual 
and  universal  humanity.  We  should  understand 
that  in  the  institution  which  "is  found  elevating 
the  race"  there  can  be  no  place  for  personal  ambi- 
tion, self-seeking,  love  of  leadership,  or  desire 
to  control,  dominate,  and  manage  the  affairs  of 
others. 

"Whosoever  of  you  will  be  the  chiefest,  shall 
be  servant  of  all,"  said  Jesus;  and  we,  as  pro- 
fessed followers  of  the  Master,  should  make 
certain  that  his  "Father's  business"  is  not 
obstructed,  hindered,  or  confounded  by  wrang- 
ling, friction,  hatred,  envy,  jealousy,  criticism,  and 
misjudgment  of  the  motives  of  others.  We  should 


30  PRAYER   AND   HEALING 

be  ever  on  guard  against  the  subtle  suggestions 
of  evil  which  seek  to  find  their  way  into  the 
"house  of  prayer"  and  which  would  turn  it  into 
"a  den  of  thieves."  We  should  be  faithful  and 
vigilant  in  protecting  ourselves  from  the  serpent- 
like  sins  which,  if  unnoticed,  would  crawl  into 
consciousness  and  defile  our  moral  nature  with 
their  stupefying  poison.  We  should  avoid  even 
the  "appearance  of  evil."  By  our  alertness  we 
shall  be  better  fitted  to  "rouse  the  dormant  under- 
standing" of  others  "to  the  apprehension  of  spir- 
itual ideas"  and  shall  thereby  prove  ourselves  to 
be  in  deed  as  well  as  in  name,  Christian  Scientists. 
The  organization  of  the  Christian  Science 
churches  is  simple  in  form,  and  their  government 
is  democratic  in  the  extreme.  Inasmuch  as  the 
Readers  who  conduct  the  services,  and  the  trustees 
or  directors  who  are  entrusted  with  the  spiritual 
and  temporal  affairs  of  these  churches,  are  elected 
at  stated  intervals  by  vote  of  the  members,  it  is 
of  the  highest  importance  to  the  welfare  of  the 
churches  that  the  members  thereof  take  an  active 
and  intelligent  interest  in  the  business  meetings 
at  which  these  officers  are  elected,  as  well  as  in 
other  regular  and  special  meetings.  When  officers 
are  to  be  elected,  the  members  should  be  prepared 
to  vote  wisely  for  those  of  their  number  who  are 
best  qualified  metaphysically,  morally,  spiritually, 
educationally,  and  by  experience,  to  fill  acceptably 
the  respective  offices.  The  members  should  not 


THE   CHURCH    OF   CHRIST,    SCIENTIST       31 

be  prejudiced  or  biased  in  their  choice  by  personal 
considerations.  They  should  not  be  unduly  in- 
fluenced by  human  opinion.  They  should  not  be 
limited  in  their  selection  of  officers  to  the  students 
of  one  teacher,  but  should  be  free  to  vote  for 
those  best  adapted  to  serve  the  Cause,  even  if 
they  are  not  class  students  at  all.  They  should  go 
to  these  elections  with  the  utmost  freedom  of 
thought,  willing  to  be  guided  by  divine  Love  and 
knowing  that  they  cannot  be  influenced  errone- 
ously nor  swayed  by  animosity  or  "mere  personal 
attachment"  (Church  Manual,  p.  40). 

One  who  has  freed  his  thought  by  demonstra- 
tion will  not  be  likely  to  listen  to  idle  rumor, 
slander,  or  gossip.  Because  he  is  conscious  of 
being  governed  by  the  Mind  which  is  God,  he 
will  have  the  wisdom  to  know  what  to  do  and 
the  intelligence  to  know  when  and  how  to  do  it. 
It  is  obvious  that  if  every  member  is  thus  gov- 
erned, the  action  of  the  church  as  a  whole  will 
be  right  and  the  result  harmonious.  Having 
made  their  choice  of  officers,  it  becomes  the  duty 
of  the  members  to  support  them  in  every  right 
way,  and  officers  thus  supported  will  give  the 
church  better  service  than  they  could  possibly, 
give  if  hampered  by  criticism  and  opposition. 
When  officers  have  been  elected,  they  should  as- 
sume the  administration  of  the  affairs  of  the 
church  as  a  sacred  trust  from  the  members.  If 
they  prove  faithful  to  the  trust  reposed  in  them, 


32  PRAYER   AND    HEALING 

they  are  entitled  to  cordial  support.  If  not,  they 
should  be  removed.  If  they  make  mistakes,  they 
should  be  treated  charitably,  for  they  do  not  claim 
to  be  perfect  and  in  most  instances  have  not 
sought  election.  Church  officers  who  have  been 
wisely  chosen  will  always  be  found  seeking  divine 
guidance  and  serving  humbly  and  considerately 
those  who  have  chosen  them.  They  will  not  as- 
sume proprietorship  or  superiority,  although  they 
will  strive  to  carry  on  the  work  of  the  church 
with  dignity  and  decorum. 

Thus  between  members  and  officers  there 
should  prevail  mutual  sympathy,  cordial  coopera- 
tion, and  an  unselfish  desire  for  the  welfare  of 
the  church  and  for  the  prosperity  of  the  Cause. 
In  this  way  will  the  Christ-idea  be  lifted  up  in 
our  churches  and  draw  all  men  unto  it.  The 
lives  of  all  Christian  Scientists,  each  word  and 
deed,  should  point  to  the  fulfilment  of  that  desire 
so  finely  expressed  by  Samuel  Longfellow: — 

O  living  Church,  thine  errand  speed, 

Fulfil  thy  task  sublime; 
With  bread  of  life  earth's  hunger  feed, 

Redeem  the  evil  time. 


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